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A RARE QING DYNASTY SAI PARRYING WEAPON

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
A RARE QING DYNASTY SAI PARRYING WEAPON
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
A very well made example with finely-forged tapering octagonal steel shaft, the semicircular guard notched at either end. With ribbed horn grip, brass ferrules, and pommel wrought as a profiled cube. First half of the 19th century. Wear to grip. Overall length 51.7 cm. Condition II